Hi everyone, some good news about PowerArchiver… I’ve managed to get in touch with the original developer of PowerArchiver, Ivan Petrovic, and he has confirmed that the product is not dead or abandoned, in fact it is still very much alive! There has been a hiatus over the past months for various reasons, but that we should expect to see stuff coming through in the coming months (hopefully the next 2 months).
The Windows 11 context menu for PowerArchiver on normal files (to be compressed, etc.) is now showing multiple tiers with two identical menus. See attached captures of the issue:
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Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 24H2
OS build 26100.2605
Hello!
I’ve just created SFX-Archives both from ZIP and 7z-Archives and none has an Icon as it seems.
I use the new version 22.00.11.
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Basically I used powerarchiver context menus to zip up a folder then i used windows 11 own built in zip extractor via the context menu to extract all and this is where it throw up a fault. , I’m using windows 11 .
The file that was a problem in the zip that windows 11 could not extract was iva “babe” cotton.jpg
I know it has non standard quotes in it.
However I had winrar on the computer and tried the exact same method with their context menu compress to zip and then I extracted the file with windows own extract all context menu and it had no problems. This indicates that powerarchiver is doing something different with iva “babe” cotton.jpg compressing to zip.
Then I changed iva “babe” cotton.jpg to iva babe cotton.jpg and compressed it with powerarchiver and then tried it with windows 11 extract all and had no problems. It looks like powerarchiver is doing something to that one file that has quotes in it.
Please note that powerarchiver extracted both zip files with no problems, only windows built in zip extraction had the fault. Reason I’m letting people know in case they send zip files with special characters in files names to people who do not have powerarchiver.
When will a fix be implemented?
On installing the program I am getting the error message:
"Unable to execute file c:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\pashutil.exe
CreateProcess failed: code 2
The system cannot find the file specified"
This can’t be right!
I am using the latest official build of Windows 11
Buttons are not properly aligned on About screen.
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Buttons not aligned on configuration window.
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New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.10:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220010.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
New version:
PowerArchiver 2023 - 22.00.11:
Download:
https://u.powerarchiver.com/pa2023/powarc220011.exe
New build for some bug fixes and issues - full list to come with new update. Please test and see if you have any issues.
Thanks everyone for your assistance!
Just tried using the Modern (Windows 10) Icon set and seeing a few missing icons in both PowerArchiver Burner and PowerArchiver Encryption screens . They are all there in the Minimalistik icon set and the only difference I can see is the former is blue and the latter grey. In version 22.00.9
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I had a large .tar file (a backed up WSL) and I want to delete a few directories and their contents from it using PA2023.
PA just destroys the whole archive as soon as I try to delete a directory, leaving it in a state where PA2023 won’t even open it any more.
I tried several times and also tried compressing it to .tar.xz instead - same result.
This should either actually work, or it should say operation not supported and do nothing.
Hello!
The regular version of PA 2023 is out for over 6 months now, but there is still no sign of the portable release.
(When) will there be one?
Thanks!
Hello!
Is there currently no portable version of PA2023 available?
(When) do you plan to release one?
Thanks!
Win 11 64 bit
I have some archives which have been encrypted, using the encrypt option either in pbs or when interactively creating a zip. When I open these, and look at files, I am asked for passwords, which I know, and then can view items or decrypt the files in the archive (tools>decrypt files).
However, when I use the Actions>Remove Archive Encryption (whether using the same zip or asking to write another), the routine shows progress bar to the end, but then just hangs i.e. “OK” never activates. All process information shows this stalled/hanging.
What can I do to sort this out?
For example:
Download this ZIP file: http://dslstats.me.uk/files/dslstats32W-6.5.zip
Everything in the ZIP file is in a directory “dslstats32W-6.5”.
However when I extract using right click “Extract Here” the name of the directory created is “2W-6.5” !
I am running PA 22.00.09 on Windows 11. I have seen the same happen with some other kinds of archive too.
Solved Tricky : how to create an archive .pa with a 'no error' report but which is corrupted...
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I tested this case several times and got same results. If you run a batch for creating a .pa archive and run that batch a second time in the same session, you have a corrupted archive. Problem is that the created test on errors creates a ‘no error’ report… dangerous if you delete original files based on such a report.
- open PA dashboard / select ‘BACKUP’ / select ‘NEW’
Then the usual parameters…
For compression I used this parameters :
pa compression/use current folder as temp /test created archive after backup
For logs : log to file
then ‘FINAL’ with ‘set as default’ and ‘do backup’
then ‘FINISH’
This is the log.txt file :
The archive is perfect and can be opened in ARCHIVE / Open.
And now this is tricky :
In the dashboard go to BACKUP. Select the same .PBS batch and press in the upper command bar ‘RUN’ and you got a new ‘no error’ check
Now go back to ARCHIVE / open / and select the just created .pa archive and try to open it …
This is the result :
I guess something is going wrong with a pointer/stack in the program or the program doesn’t refresh memory and consider the archive in use… that perfect no-error report is a mystery …
- open PA dashboard / select ‘BACKUP’ / select ‘NEW’
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@pirrbe thanks to those files i discovered that it creates .7z archive 2nd time around, hence it cant be opened as .pa… it works if you rename it to .7z… seems like something simple in gui that we should be able to fix quickly… thanks a lot!
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@pirrbe i think it is not locked because there are multiple threads writing into it (depending on files could be 10-15) at the same time… but as to the no error, we will be checking it next build. Thank you!
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@spwolf Just for the record : this morning, from a cold system restart, I tried to open that file. No way, the file is corrupted such as… Yesterday, in that same session, after the corruption report, I tried to rebuild the archive from that .pbs but from another way. Result : the whole program stopped/blocked with a classic windows OS error…
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@pirrbe ah, so Backup wasnt running together, it was one after another?
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@pirrbe so after restart, same file works fine?
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@pirrbe can you send us that pbs to support please, so we can use same settings as you. Thanks!
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@spwolf In my first post I mentioned ‘same session’. After the first archive creation with .pa compression , I executed the same .pbs again, staying in the same open dasboard ! And this caused a corrupted archive. A cold restart of the system resulted the same error message by opening that archive. Or the file is not physical corrupted but no more accessible (?). Ok, I will send you the .pbs file and the test file I wanted to archive. (just a commercial pdf presentation of a new car). Np.
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@pirrbe said in Tricky : how to create an archive .pa with a 'no error' report but which is corrupted...:
@spwolf In my first post I mentioned ‘same session’. After the first archive creation with .pa compression , I executed the same .pbs again, staying in the same open dasboard ! And this caused a corrupted archive. A cold restart of the system resulted the same error message by opening that archive. Or the file is not physical corrupted but no more accessible (?). Ok, I will send you the .pbs file and the test file I wanted to archive. (just a commercial pdf presentation of a new car). Np.
thanks pirrbe for explaining it to me… can you reproduce this again or was it one time thing?
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@spwolf I can produce it any time… But not with a .zip. I will retest it, but with a .pa compression it is each time bingo.
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Confirmed using PA archive but I didn’t bother with the Logging or Setting as Default
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@pirrbe **A zip archive ** will not suffer and stays intact. All .pbs batches wih a .pa compression are destructive, once you run the batch twice in a same session, the archive is no more accesible…
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@pirrbe thanks to those files i discovered that it creates .7z archive 2nd time around, hence it cant be opened as .pa… it works if you rename it to .7z… seems like something simple in gui that we should be able to fix quickly… thanks a lot!
